Through New Guinea and the Cannibal Countries - 1898, Captain Webster’s Adventurous Pacific Expedition Narrative history of war This copy therefore links the

This copy therefore links the publisher of Britain’s tribute to America with one of the senior airmen who helped forge the wartime Anglo-American military partnership

Few books of New Guinea travel have such immediate visual presence

” “Peter” was the familiar name of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Portal

Condition: Near fine in an exceptionally well-preserved dust jacket

Through New Guinea and the Cannibal Countries - 1898, Captain Webster’s Adventurous Pacific Expedition Narrative history of war This copy therefore links theWEBSTER, Captain H. Cayley. Through New Guinea and the Cannibal Countries. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. First edition, first impression. A striking late Victorian Pacific exploration classic, offered in the original blue pictorial cloth, boldly blocked in gilt with native figures to the upper board and spine. Few books of New Guinea travel have such immediate visual presence, and this remains one of the most dramatic decorated bindings in the